"We have skype for that"? WTF, maybe you should at least learn what X game chat is before you go dissing it. Disagrees.. not surprised. Hell has no fury like a PS3 fan who can't admit a feature would be nice to have.

It's definitely not. Should be a pretty simple feature to have. You don't have to shoot it down just because the PS3 doesn't have it and the 360 does.

People are saying you can use Skype or cell phones. Are you guys retarded or something? So you're telling me that you will actually turn down a cross chat feature in favor of your cell phone or Skype? If so, you have some problems.

Ill admit i dont want cross game chat because i wont use it , i dont use it on the 360 , i use vent on the pc only when on wow. If they add it then thats good i guess for ppl that want it but i cant imagine there are many that do.

Cross Game Chat is sooooooooo overrated. I think xbox fans just started throwing features out that the ps3 didn't have just to say they had something the ps3 didn't.

1. If your in my squad playing a game with me, you shouldn't be talking to other people playing another game your head should be in the game and talking to your team.

2. Who talks anymore? I use my phone for my mom and my fiance. That's it. All my friends and I talk at work or at the bar in person. I can't speak for everyone but most grown men I know don't like to just chat with other men.

I do see its usefulness for getting a game going but even then I've gotten by since the early ps2 days without it.

Hell I hate when people sent me chat and game invites. I turned on my console and launched a single player game. I may not want to play online, leave me a lone.

At any rate, it is overrated. Yes, it's nice to have, I can't deny that; but "nice to have" does not mean the same thing as "needed" or "necessary".

Playing online in an online game is "needed" and "necessary" if I bought a game that has an online component. I can't do that without paying for online and I have no other option if I want to do that on a 360.

I can work around not having cross-game chat on the PS3 and still play PS3 games while I talk to whomever; I cannot, however, work around not having online on the 360 and still play 360 games online.

Personally, I could care less about cross-game chat. I mean really, if I'm playing Battlefield, and my buddy is playing Skyrim or something, what are we really going to talk about? My friend: "Hey man, I just killed this Mammoth with my bare hands!", Me: "No kidding! I just shot a guy in the penis, har har!"... If there is a feature that I am truly jealous of the 360 that I really do wish the PS3 had, is the ability to send audio messages. THAT, I would use all the time. Sometimes, I really need to smack talk to the enemy team.

I would have to agree that cross game voice chat is over rated because when using it the players in the party lose communication with in-game party members if playing in multiplayer.

The cross game voice chat can also allow cheaters to tell where certain enemies are once they die, if they end up on the same side.

If the PlayStation could do what the cross game text chat can do with voice then yes it's a feature worth wild. If not then it's not only a waste, it defeats the purpose of playing online in competitive video games.

And you know they are all available and online how exactly? You guys spend way to much time jumping through hoops. Personally I don't use it often, but I do recognize it is a nice feature to actually have.

Not to mention, for anyone who has a smartphone (and who doesn't these days?) There are several apps on both the Ios and Android that actually tell you which friends are online and what games they're playing at the moment. These apps exist for both PS3 and Xbox.

PS4/Omni will have x-game chat just like the vita has it. I won't care about it but i could occasionally seeing myself use it if the game needs. The game lobby that keeps everyone together is what i'll like better. Having that will be good to have for all the XBOX converts though. There the ones who can't play a single-player game without someone in their ear.

In game ads - depends which games you are talking about and how they are implamented. Say gran turismo 6 for example had ads for halfords, top gear dvds and other car related stuff on loading screens, that would actually be a good thing.

On the other hand if say you were playing uncharted 4 and an advert for " always period pads " randomly just flashed up on the screen that would obviously be wrong!

WOW ok, I remove my comment, having more features on our consoles is not good. we should get less features.

just stating one of the most wanted features in the playstation blog poll sections, voted by lots of playstation fans. all those disagrees, are they angry 360 fans or what? people needs to see the difference between trolling and suggestions.

It's like if free online play was a feature and 360 owners would disagree with you....

cross game chat for me is a feature that I like so much on PC. sure, you can easily use the chat service with steam since you got a keyboard, but having one on your console is not as useful compared to VOIP. one of the reason why I want this is for private chat feature. Devs doesn't seem to include it in their games and I hate hearing people complaining online, so cross game chat seemed like a valuable feature.

Is there any other feature that should NOT be there, except cross game chat?

The absolute worse thing Sony can do now is to confuse the customer's with 100 features on a system. The reason people bought PS1's and PS2's in droves was the fact you just pop in a game and play. Simple. And while i understand the times are moving on with the advent of online play, DLC, updates, online media services etc. it will absolutely cripple any next gen machine that tries to pack in gimmicky useless features for the sake of "one upping" the next console. I'd love Sony to focus on the GAMES first and foremost. Construct a machine that makes games run effortless, make it piss easy to develop for and make it easy and fun to play. If it were up to me, i'd just stick with a games machine, online service for updates and DLC and Blu-Ray and DVD playback. End Of Story. Screw 3D Camera's, 4K resolution, motion control. These things just drives up the cost and confuses the consumer. If Sony were smart they'd basically opt for a modern PS2. That machine did games well and thats it. My baby cousin is chewing on one as im typing this. Thats the kind of success Sony needs to focus on. A PS2 for every gran, dad, dog and baby.

Well I have no doubt Sony well be doing what your asking for. They are the only company that throws games after games at us. In opposed to Microsoft which has flooded xbox live with apps. I mean I wouldn't really mind of they gave us a lot of apps but it will be great if they can do both. A lot of apps and a lot of games. But apps that are useful not like *cough* *cough* Google maps. In my opinion Sony is positioning themselves fine for next gen.

agreed they have created a fine set of new IP's this gen and a collection of high quality exclusives that puts sony at a great position for next gen. the xbox on the other hand will have to compete with the steambox and the services it brings as it doesn't have anything to separate it from the other consoles apart from the kinect but if MS do commit them selves to the kinect then they will lose the majority of their consumer base. the steambox will use steam's services as a selling point and wiiU ofcourse has its gamepad and wiimote. i think sony above all needs to improve its online services to compete with steam, this shouldn't be too hard with gaikai under their belt. all in all next gen will be pretty interesting i'm guessing we will see gamers split into different categories with each console taking a different direction. i will be putting my money on the ps4 for next gen =)